New In Town

Genre: Comedy / Romance

Language: English

Director: Jonas Elmer

Cast: Renée Zellweger (Miss Potter), Harry Connick, Jr. (P.S. I Love You)

Runtime: 96 minutes

Plot:

An aspiring executive (Renée Zellweger) in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle, adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town (New Ulm) after being sent to oversee the restructuring of a factory. The locals give her a frosty reception when she makes no attempt to understand the local culture. She ends up risking her career to save the factory after she begins to understand the impact of her actions on the people of New Ulm and falls in love with the local union leader (Harry Connick, Jr.)

Watched on 21 Feb evening @ Cathay Cineleisure with Sylvia.

Quite a typical story. A career woman moved to somewhere unfamiliar, thinking she can managed on her own without requiring anyone help. Then met a man that saved her day and she fell for him eventually. Renee tried her best to convince the audience her role as the successful career woman and she rather stood out from the rest, showing she really couldn't blend to the people in town.

The "new" location of filming was not that common among the rest of the US movies, the always winter cold scene was rather unique as in Asia, those experiences such as Ice fishing, trapped in snow pile, are not common. Other than that, I felt the movie does not really got me engaged except for the crow shooting part. I thought if the male lead was change to Hugh Jackman, will the movie be much better?

ah-deng says: 1/5 Watch it during Christmas on TV.